High severity8.2NVD Advisory· Published Apr 7, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-5302
CVE-2020-5302
Description
MH-WikiBot (an IRC Bot for interacting with the Miraheze API), had a bug that allowed any unprivileged user to access the steward commands on the IRC interface by impersonating the Nickname used by a privileged user as no check was made to see if they were logged in. The issue has been fixed in commit 23d9d5b0a59667a5d6816fdabb960b537a5f9ed1.
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2- Range: < commit 23d9d5b0a59667a5d6816fdabb960b537a5f9ed1
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